I’ve been aware lately of the pervasiveness of fear in our lives. And not because it was Halloween this past weekend, but because, as I return to teaching and hear the stories people share with me, I’m amazed at how many contain a component of fear–I can’t find a job, I might lose my [...]
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Facing Our Fears
Posted in Uncategorized on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
10-8 Courtship
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lord Give Me
Life is always up or down,
or yes, or no.
But there is one person who is always a yes.
Though with the usual human complexities.
Lord, give me a few more years
to enjoy such confusion.
~Mary Oliver
What if that “one person” were you?
Not in a narcissistic way, but in a “your ‘human complexities’ are the doorway to [...]
Practice as Relationship
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I decided to take these three months off to write my thesis, I had three intentions that I wrote down and posted on my fridge:
1. Get to know myself outside of my normal roles
2. Deepen my relationship with Spirit
3. Write my thesis
Though I understood, at least in part, that my ability to write my [...]
Ruminations
Posted in Uncategorized on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well, it’s been a few weeks now that I have not been teaching and have been dedicating my time to writing. I have had some lovely days spent writing, reading, walking in nature, doing yoga and meditating—all as I had intended and had anxiously awaited.
AND, I have also had many days filled with fixing flat [...]
Listening Within
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Life is a chain.
Depending on how you look at it, it may feel like a chain that binds and restricts you, or it may feel like a chain of connected experiences and moments that hold purpose, meaning, and possibility. I believe the difference between which type of chain you experience life as lies within where [...]
Coming home
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” This line came into my head the other day. I don’t recall the first time I read it, but it is a line from a short story called “The Painful Case,” in James Joyce’s Dubliners.
It’s staggering how many people don’t inhabit their bodies. Even [...]
Observing the wonders
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Thursday morning as I was completing my morning meditation and praying for guidance about a question that has been troubling my spirit, a bird collided with the large picture window in my house and fell to the ground. I rushed outside and found a red-headed woodpecker lying still on the deck. Certain he had [...]
Transformation
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s been a lot of talk about change lately; not only in the collective, but also in very personal ways for many people, including myself. There is a call on many levels for what has been to dissolve and for something new to take its place.
Over the last few weeks I was reminded of the [...]
Valentine
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I wrote a newsletter about the perils and promises of peace and change because this dynamic is present in my life, and obviously, also in the collective. But I also wrote about this because I was avoiding writing about the topic of most February newsletters: love.
To tell you the truth, love is a complete [...]
The promise and peril of peace
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Unfortunately, peace is boring.”
Having both read the book Three Cups of Tea while we were on vacation (which I highly recommend!!), my partner and I were debating why America would agree to spend millions to bomb Afghanistan, but not the $12,000 per school it would cost to bring balanced education to the children or Afghanistan.
I [...]
